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Question. "Is it your opinion that either the Lake Erie outrage or St. Alban's raid would ever have occurred, if the perpetrators of them had not known that the British Provinces afforded them a safe asylum for retreat?"

Answer. "The surrender of Burley showed that it was not a safe asylum for retreat!"

But Burley was surrendered January 31, 1864. Paper C., p. 82. This was nearly four months after the St. Alban's raid.

His erroneous statements on p. 29 and p. 30, as to the employment of detectives, under Colonel Ermatinger, to prevent the raids, have been fully shown when considering Colonel Ermatinger and his detectives.

These errors of memory are explained, when we reflect that the transactions are not within his jurisdiction, and he would know nothing of them personally; that he gives no dates; and that he confounds what was done after the raid with what was done before it.

In this last respect Mr. Langevin appears much better.

Hon. H. L. Langevin.

He was Solicitor-General for Lower Canada. Resided at Quebec. He knows no facts as to any measures being taken by the Government to prevent the raids. All his statements are general and indefinite. When asked (p. 49):

Q. "What steps were taken for guarding the frontier before the raid?"

He answers

A. "I do not recollect any special matter about that; I do not think that we were ever called upon from the position of affairs to do anything of the kind; I do not think we saw there was any need of it."

Q. "Afterwards great precautions were taken ?"

A. "Yes, immediately." [Deposition, p. 49.]

Q. "Was Colonel Ermatinger an official under your Department ?"

A. "I do not remember exactly what his position was at the time; I think he must have been a mere Justice of the Peace. After the raid I think he was employed by us more than once as a stipendiary magistrate." On page 55 he says: "On referring to an Order in Council passed on a memorandum of the same date, from the Attorney-General for Upper Canada (Sir John A. McDonald), I see that he recommended that a stipendiary magistrate be appointed holding a commission for certain counties in Upper Canada."

This, doubtless, was the appointment of McMicken to which Sir John McDonald referred in his testimony, page 30, as having been made to prevent breaches of neutrality. It will be seen that it was two months after the St. Alban's raid.

Refer also to Book C., p. 64.

It is evident from the testimony of Mr. Langevin that no magistrates or detectives were appointed to watch the doings of of the refugees until after the St. Alban's raid. His testimony on this subject is contained on pages 55 and 56 of his Deposition. Page 55.

Q. "Have you any knowledge of any magistrates or detectives being appointed prior to the 16th of December, 1864 ?

A. Immediately after the St. Alban's raid the Government appointed and sent officers to take all the measures necessary to prevent a recurrence of the same; I cannot now give the names."

The Canadian Government should not be allowed any premium on gold paid, because the same was applied in payment for bonds or securities payable in gold.

Claim No. 4. Bradley Barlow, Receiver of St. Alban's Bank.

All the bills of the Franklin County Bank in excess of 31,857 dollars taken from that bank, amounting to 8,143 dollars, were redeemed by the claimant. The balance of the loss was in the bills of other banks or Government currency.

2,000 00

5,000 00

2,600 00

154,974 79

31,857 00

Ten, so-called, Treasury notes of the denomination of 50 dollars each

Coupons there n bearing interest at 73 per cent. semiannually attached, to February 15th, 1872

Interest from February 15th, 1872, to June 15th, 1873 ..

80 00

1,520 00

Claim No. 10. Charles F. Everest.

Amount of United States' coupon bonds, with gold
coupons attached
Interest thereon, as represented by said coupons, semi-
annually
Interest from February 15th, 1872, to June 15th, 1873 ..

Amount of moneys and securities received by Canadian officials belonging to the claimants, and either misappropriated by those officials to their own use, or wrongfully given over to the St. Alban's raiders :

Standish and a Government official of Canada took from
a shed of the International Hotel at Frelighsburg and
gave to George N. Saunders, Rebel Agent in Canada,
(See Standich dep. pages 71 and 75)
Collector of Customs, Kemp, a Government official,
received from one of the raiders, Mr. Wallace, at
Frelighsburg (see Ambrose L. Hall's dep., page 50),
and gave a portion to the raiders
Orrin B. Kemp, the clerk of the magistrates' court at
Frelighsburgh, had two 100-dollar United States'
Treasury notes, which his agent (Standish) sold in
Montreal, and appropriated the avails thereof to his
own use. (See Standish's dep., page 69)

..

15,000 00

10,000 00

200 00

Bailiffs Wells and Monahan likewise had moneys left with them by the raiders, which was afterwards given over to the raiders; but the exact amount the claimants have been unable to ascertain.

The last above moneys, taken by Canadian officials, amounting to about

And interest thereon from October 19th, 1864, to June

26,200 00

13,624 00

39,824 00

was not included in the amount surrendered up to the raiders by Lamothe, and the same has never been surrendered up to its owners, or in any wise accounted for by the Canadian Government to its owners. This amount is included in the amounts claimed by claimants in their memorials as above specified.

The claimants are at a loss to see how the British Government can refuse, under any view of the law, to pay to the claimants this amount of money, which the Canadian officials, holding commissions direct from their Government, either corruptly appropriated to their own use or wrongly restored to the raiders.